London 2012: Poll suggests participation has increased
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A BBC Radio 5 live poll has found that around one in five people have been inspired to play sport by the London Olympics.
One of the legacy targets of the 2012 Games was to increase the number of people playing sport around Britain.
Of those polled, 56% also felt there is too much media coverage of football and not enough of other sports.
Only 35% said they had noticed an increase in non-football stories since the Games ended almost six months ago.
On the issue of participation, there have been success stories, with cycling experiencing a notable increase.
Jarl Walsh, who is general manager of the National Cycling Centre in Manchester, said there had been a "significant spike" in the number of people using the site's facilities and revealed there was a "significant waiting list for everything we do".
British Cycling also said their membership was now at 62,500, an increase of 12,500 since Bradley Wiggins won the Tour de France in July.
British Rowing has also seen a rise in demand, especially from people looking for a club on the 'club finder' section of the organisation's website.
Politicians have recently been accused of paying "lip service" to sport.
The last Labour government wanted two million people to become more active as result of the Games, although that later became a pledge to get one million people playing more sport.
Sport England announced in December that the number of people aged 16 to 19 playing sport had fallen. It also announced that it will give £493m to grassroots sports between 2013-17, up £54.7m.
ComRes interviewed 1,009 British adults by telephone between 4 and 6 January, 2013. Full tables are available at www.comres.co.uk.
Lord Coe, Sports Minister Hugh Robertson and a number of Olympians and Paralympians will join Victoria on her programme from 10:00 GMT on Thursday to discuss the poll's results.
BBC Radio 5 live listeners are also encouraged to enter the debate.
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I expect there will be more negative comments than positive like the one from the idiot @#1 - who's being a sheep?
If it inspires some then great.
It's taken over 4 hours to get to the same number with this post.
Face facts folks, football is popular.
Yet 9 of the top 10 sports stories on the BBC today are football related, with the 1 being about a drug cheat cyclist?
I'm past my peak as a cricketer (and I'm not sure I even had one) but I can still coach and mentor young people in the sport. That comes from loving sport for what it should be not what the media want it to be. The need for other sports to gain participants through self publicity needs the media also benefitted from 2012. BBC take note of the 56% who se football is overhyped!
Maybe because football is the most popular sport in the country (world) and by some distance. People forget that the origins of football and rugby are similar, both were essentially played by posh boys and were eventually codified at Cambridge. Football eventually gained mass popularity over rugby
For a country full of football fanatics it didn't seem that popular in the Olympics with plenty of unsold tickets and empty seats - probably because it is a lot to do with supporting/associating with a team more than watching good football being played I suppose. Lots of footballing posts on these boards are more banter/digs at the oppostion so it will never take long to rack loads up :-)
I now know why
But i also follow many other sports and football gets too much coverage. It's by far the most controversal sport with the worst personalites, which generates headlines unfortunately.
Instead we see the sports pages of the BBC website filled up with non-stories of has been's moving their family London! I haven't ever seen a story other than football or a scandal in another major sport as the headline. Sadly, these days, kids won't find out about sport unless they see it first!
And befor you bang on about people not wanting to watch "minority" sports remember the BBC is supposed to be a public interest broadcaster not pandering to the ratings.